Awareness Through Movement: Easy-To-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness,9780062503220

Awareness Through Movement: Easy-To-Do Health Exercises to Improve Your Posture, Vision, Imagination, and Personal Awareness

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ISBN13: 9780062503220
ISBN10: 0062503227
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-01-20
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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This textbook offers a series of "lessons" that take the human body through movements most children could do easily but had been pushed out of my movement repertoire. The real point of this textbook which provides exercises that can deepen your insight into areas that you've already begun to touch. Reading this textbook helped expand my understanding of the concept of our actions, being WHAT we are, showing WHO we are, without needing further interpretation. I'd recommend this textbook to anyone. It is Informative, well-researched, delightful fun.


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Summary

Thousands have found renewed health and increased sensory awareness through the Feldenkrais method as explained in Awareness Through Movement. Here is a way for people of every age to integrate physical and mental development into a new, invigorating wholeness. Feldenkrais provides a modern day, practical program for the perennial ideal of a healthy mind in a healthy body.

His down to earth method carefully avoids any mystical component and never obliges any pupil to master abstruse theories. Exercises for posture, eyes, imagination, and more will simultaneously build better body habits and focus new dimensions of awareness, self image, and human potential.

"Feldenkrais's most popular and accessible book."-Smithsonian

Table of Contents

Part I: Understanding While Doing 3(54)
Preface
3(7)
The Self-Image
10(15)
Strata of Development
25(5)
Where to Begin and How
30(10)
Structure and Function
40(9)
The Direction of Progress
49(8)
Part II: Doing to Understand: Twelve Practical Lessons 57(115)
General Observations 57(6)
Some Practical Hints 63(3)
Lesson 1 What Is Good Posture?
66(19)
Lesson 2 What Action Is Good?
85(6)
Lesson 3 Some Fundamental Properties of Movement
91(9)
Lesson 4 Differentiation of Parts and Functions in Breathing
100(9)
Lesson 5 Coordination of the Flexor Muscles and of the Extensors
109(6)
Lesson 6 Differentiation of Pelvic Movements by Means of an Imaginary Clock
115(8)
Lesson 7 The Carriage of the Head Affects the State of the Musculature
123(7)
Lesson 8 Perfecting the Self-Image
130(9)
Lesson 9 Spatial Relationships as a Means to Coordinated Action
139(6)
Lesson 10 The Movement of the Eyes Organizes the Movement of the Body
145(10)
Lesson 11 Becoming Aware of Parts of Which We Are Not Conscious with the Help of Those of Which We Are Conscious
155(7)
Lesson 12 Thinking and Breathing
162(10)
Postscript 172
Illustrations follow page 108

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